Bible Verses - Gratitude for those who comfort the mourning

1. It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. - Ecclesiastes 7:2
   
2. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress - James 1:27 (I figure this is applicable to comforting anyone who is bereaved)
   
3. A timely word--how good that is! - Proverbs 15:23
4. A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver. - Proverbs 25:11
   
   
5. There is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. - Proverbs 18:24